// Tsunami Troubles.

Woah. I actually never realized how serious this was, I mean my initial thoughts were : " How can you die from water? It's a wave, it's not like they were submerged in it, just shoved around a bit. " but now I think I have a better understanding of it. After being nagged at by parents for not listening to the news or reading the newspapers much over the holidays, I came to realize that it actually was a much bigger deal than I thought. Even today on the first day at school I spent all of Socials class talking about it. The activity we did in Socials really helped me look at it from a different perspective.

The activity we did was close our eyes and listen to our teacher read out this first-person narrative story about someone on vacation in Phuket the tourist city in Thailand at exactly 9:55 am, 5 minutes before the first wave hit shore. The story he read us stopped exactly at the moment the first wave hit, and afterwards we were asked to continue on the story ourselves ( and to make sure people aren't lazy, our first-person character was not allowed to die. )

Tsunami Troubles.

As I squinted my eyes in the sun I looked off into the distance to see the ocean rise to touch the sky. I feel a sudden breeze, and the tide pulls back to uncover sparkling silver fish and various other ocean life on the naked ocean floor. The screams around me were then quickly replaced by what seemed to be the laughter of children. Many people then crowd towards the shore in attempts to gather and catch some of the stranded fish. Suddenly I felt cold, I looked up to realize that I could no longer feel the heat of the blazing sun upon my shoulder, hidden behind the impenetrable wall that was the ocean water. As I stood in disbelief, people around me realized the same thing. Screams knocked me back down to reality, and I begin to follow a group of people heading in the opposite direction to their cars; and others on foot. Just as I was about to go into the entrance of my hotel, I look back. Just in time to see the first wave hit the shore. The children, the people, everything. I quickly close the door behind me and with the help of others, held it shut tight. I waited in the akward silence for a few seconds and suddenly water rushed past and blocked the whole view. Standing barefoot in the puddles formed by seeping water, I watched as everything is swept by unchallenged. For what seemed like eternity, I waited helplessly. When the tide receded, I slowly open the door to see what was happening, and everyone surrounding me immediately rushes outside to help. I slide down to the floor in disbelief, and I grip the soft carpet under me. Suddenly a shadow is cast over everything outside, and just as I look out through the glass door I see people being swept back out to sea. Everyone around me is gone. There is silence.

The End. Yea, that was actually BEFORE all the informative stuff the teacher told us, and later I found out that it was proven that even the tides, the trees stood yet the buildings didn't. So holding onto a tree would've been safer, and the building would have collapsed. My bad. Anyways I hope you all pray for those that are out there, and for the families who know those that have perished or have been injured.